Complete List of Journal Articles

Balance is an elusive quality that we all strive for, and the New Year is a particularly good time for us to start fresh in this arena. As pagans, the essence of our beliefs is captured by the notion of balance — the balance of the seasons, of light ...

Protection magic is always a popular topic in magic circles. Many feel that people who are attuned with the world of magic emit a brighter energetic “shine,” and are more visible, and therefore susceptible, to the less beneficial energies and ...

Sometimes things happen in our lives that we don’t recover from, at least not right away. Heartbreak, abuse, loss of a loved one — these are all major traumas that we sometimes need to bury initially in order to make it through. But, as we all know, ...

We usually think of the dark part of the year as beginning in earnest after Samhain, however we truly enter the darker time as the days begin to wane right after the summer solstice. Lammas, on August 1, is the first holiday of the harvest, ...

As we enter the season of autumn, we have the opportunity to take a long and fruitful journey with the goddess Persephone. She is quite the intriguing lady. As bringer of spring and Queen of the Underworld simultaneously, she is paradox incarnate. ...

Greetings all! It is with some sadness that I write my last column for New Worlds. I have very much enjoyed writing to each of you for the past three years, but it is time to move on to other adventures, and in the next issue you will have a lovely ...

The rationalist culture of the post 19th century has done its best to kill imagination. To the pure materialist, imagination is just day-dreaming and an un-necessary barrier to achieving. More recently, science seems to be reviewing its views ...

PART 1: AN INTRODUCTION TO ESOTERIC GROUPS Most people interested in the esoteric have a belief that there is a Hogwarts or an Invisible College – a secretive coven or hidden society with mysterious secrets and powerful initiations. The late ...

The Sun's energy gives us warmth, light, and life. The Major Arcana card of the Sun, number nineteen, represents the same. It demonstrates to us the symbology of rebirth, growth, and progress. In numerology, "nineteen" comprises One—the beginning, newness, creation—and Nine—endings and completion. We breathe in, only to breathe out and in again.

Demons, fairies, and saints—together? These are not three categories we think of together. In past eras, however, perceptions of the supernatural world were much more fluid. Magicians of the Renaissance would not be averse to calling upon whatever beings were available that could teach them secrets, acquire treasure, or gain the love of... read this article